iOS 7 eye strain

I agree

• the fonts are razor thin....
• app icon grays out...
• the mail icons such as delete, forward/reply...etc are too small to be visualised and the font color (blue) is not proffessional... basically invisible
• Contacts in favorites are not user friendly any more with new font size...

Wish I did not upgrade to IOS7. If apple does not fix these basic issues, I am sure a lot customers will be migrating over to Android!! or atleast have secoond thoughts on upgrading to the next iphone.

I assigned the acessory shortcut (home key triple click) to "invert colours" - a quick tripple click makes messages etc. much easier to read and quick to put colours back to normal for photos etc. A temporary fix until Apple sort this mess of an update out.

Also using BOLD helps...... (A tiny bit.)

Increasing contrast..... I couldn't detect any real difference.

i eye

Does anyone know if the 7.04 update addresses the readability/contrast issues?

its_me wrote:

Does anyone know if the 7.04 update addresses the readability/contrast issues?

iOS 7.0.4 address a FaceTime issue for some models of phones.

Any updates yet? Any changes to make it more visible? I used my phone outdoors a fair bit, and ios 7 makes it nigh onto impossible to read. Apps like the calandar and the notepad, which I have used daily for years, wash out completely in bright light. I've owned every iphone since the original, and mulitple versions of them for staff, family, etc. Sadly, my 5 will be my lasy iphone.

When there is an update to iOS, you'll be notified by a badge on your Settings icon. Once you navigage to Software Update, you can read the release notes. Until then, no one here would know anything about Apple's future plans.

Best of luck.

I totally agree that "apple" should be punished for this. But I want to know something = is it true that "apple" is purposely doing this because they want to sell their company to "warren buffet".

shimmering wrote:

I totally agree that "apple" should be punished for this. But I want to know something = is it true that "apple" is purposely doing this because they want to sell their company to "warren buffet".

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Just out of curiosity, why are you putting Apple and Warren Buffet in quotes?

I just bought an iPhone5c. The small texts, brightness settings and unbalanced contrasts give me eye strain after a few minutes. iOS 7 might be a good step towards practically using iPhone but ironicly it feels unusable for more than a couple of minutes.

I just updated to iOS 7.1, and I'm VERY happy. I don't have to squint to read my phone now!! Apple did a very good job in bringing back some readability to iOS.

You can reach these settings by going to:

Settings --> General --> Accessibility

Additional settings are in Accessibility--> Increase Contrast (Darken Colors and Reduce White Point)

Indeed, 7.1 is the fix most all of us have been waiting for. I'm also very pleased with the new options. What a relief.

So guys, is it actually usable now? Did they finally figure things out like the eye is drawn to light, which makes bright, white screens a BAD idea from a design perspective? Is it as legible as ios 6 again?

I'm back on ios6 but I need to do something because apple is not releasing a security patch for the iphone 5, which is annoys me to know end. So my choices are go back to ios 7 (7.1 in this case), which I have been avoiding for 6 months, or go get myself a new samsung of some kind, which I don't really want either.

You must be one of those guys who can't handle change. 🙂

Sorry about the issues you are having with your 5c. Terrible when a new and expensive product becomes nigh on unusable because of poor design choices by folks looking to make changes, not improvements. Apple has as much as admitted the horribly poor design of ios 7, since with pretty well every patch, they have added "features" to make it more legible. "Features" that ios 6 didn't have or need.

As you can't go back to ios 6, I'd recommend getting on 7.1 as soon as possible, if you still have your phone.

In my opinion it is much more readable. The colors have better contrast against each other, the bolded text is now applied to keyboards, etc. much more effectively. The glaring whites can be adjusted down, and if you really need it, you can even have shapes behind certain buttons.

Britt,

Here is a Dropbox link to some screen shots I did on my iPhone 5s to show some of the iOS 7.1 changes.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x1pdey7a9vhxue3/22JRYgn4Un?lst